Jehovah God

Jehovah according to the Bible

According to God’s word, the Bible, Jehovah is the personal name of the only true God. Jehovah’s self-designation. Jehovah is according to the Bible the creator of the universe. Including our earth, human kind and animals. Because of this, Jehovah God is the Sovereign Ruler of the universe.

“Jehovah” is a Translation from Hebrew to English. In the Hebrew language we can read for God’s name the Hebrew Tetragrammaton, יהוה. This four Hebrew letters are represented in English and in many other languages (for example German) by the letters JHVH or YHWH.

The meaning of God’s name Jehovah

The name Jehovah has a meaning. In English Jehovah means “He Causes to Become.”

Is Jehovah is the right pronunciation for God’s name?

The Catholic Encyclopedia [1913, Vol. VIII, p. 329] states: “Jehovah, the proper name of God in the Old Testament; hence the Jews called it the name by excellence, the great name, the only name.” Not everybody think , that Jehovah is the right pronunciation of God’s name. But Jehovah is the most common pronunciation of God’s name in the English language. All around the world. And similar in many other languages. For example in German: Jehova.

Jehovah’s Witnesses follow Jesus Christ. Jehovah’s Witnesses are Christians. Jesus Christ said according to the Bible: “I have made your name known to them and will make it known” (The Bible, John 17:26). Jehovah’s Witnesses also make God’s name known to the people they preach. In hundreds of lands and territories.

We can read God’s name Jehovah in this Bible Translation at Matthew 21:9 and in 17 other places. This Bible Translation is a translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures.

God’s name Jehovah in the literal Translation The Holy Bible translated by Robert Young

God’s name Jehovah is used in this literal Translation of the Bible throughout the Hebrew Scriptures.

We can find God’s name Jehovah in different Bible translations. For example in The New English Bible: God’s name Jehovah appears at Exodus 3:15; 6:3. See also Genesis 22:14; Exodus 17:15; Judges 6:24; Ezekiel 48:35. In the Revised Standard Version we can read in the footnote on Exodus 3:15 says: “The word LORD when spelled with capital letters, stands for the divine name, YHWH.”

God’s name Jehovah in the American Standard Version

We can find God’s name Jehovah consistently in the Hebrew Scriptures in this Translation of the Bible, beginning with Genesis 2:4.

Jehovah in Today’s English Version

In the footnote on Exodus 6:3 we can read: “THE LORD: . . . Where the Hebrew text has Yahweh, traditionally transliterated as Jehovah, this translation employs LORD with capital letters, following a usage which is widespread in English versions.”

The explanation in the footnote on Exodus 6:3 says: “My name Adonai. The name, which is in the Hebrew text, is that most proper name of God, which signifieth his eternal, self-existing being, (Exod. 3, 14,) which the Jews out of reverence never pronounce; but, instead of it, whenever it occurs in the Bible, they read Adonai, which signifies the Lord; and, therefore, they put the points or vowels, which belong to the name Adonai, to the four letters of that other ineffable name, Jod, He, Vau, He. Hence some moderns have framed the name of Jehovah, unknown to all the ancients, whether Jews or Christians; for the true pronunciation of the name, which is in the Hebrew text, by long disuse is now quite lost.”